Here We Go Again!

Here come those holidays again! Time to get the roaster ovens out on the counter tops and fired up to 350 degrees! Guests will start arriving and the turkeys and hams will take center stage in most everyone’s feasts! I actually get very excited around this time of year because of the dishes that suddenly reappear after being unseen, and uneaten, for nearly a year. Like cranberry sauce, creamed corn casserole and seafood stuffing made in a skillet!

I don’t know about your traditions, but ours are pretty basic. At Thanksgiving the cookie baking starts, the gift buying begins and the culinary challenges in this family become vicious!

Mother will of course do the holiday birds and hams. And to perfection, I might add. But, the side dishes and dessert are all up for grabs and a lot of us take ‘out-cooking’ the others pretty darn serious. And, with our number darn near qualifying us to be our own small country, the thought of the dishes that will arrive at the table is always a very exciting and fun part of our holidays!

One of my secret side dishes this year was a Seafood Stuffing!

First thing I need of course will be my cooking vessel!

The Presto Foldaway Electric Skillet is the perfect choice for this recipe. (Or so I’ve been told. Stuffing from a skillet? You know me, I’m going to have to try this for myself.) I am borrowing this skillet from my girlfriend, Janet. “It turns out better than from a crock pot or roaster,” she said. She tends bar and so almost nightly has a special that she serves to her customers, like Sloppy Joe’s, Rigatoni or her house specialty – Creamed Chicken over Biscuits! Yum! Anyway, I decided I was willing to give this Presto a try and see just how right my BFF was about this electric skillet.

Here’s the recipe I used for my ‘now pretty darn famous’ Seafood Stuffing. (Does the name tell you how my secret side dish turned out!)